Whose sacred balm, o’er all things shed,

Revives the weak, the old renews,

And crowns with votive wreaths the dead.

7. Once more the cuckoo’s call I hear;

I know, in many a glen profound,

The earliest violets of the year

Rise up like water from the ground.

8. The thorn I know once more is white;

And, far down many a forest dale,

The anemones in dubious light